Huwal of the West Welsh
Huwal of the West Welsh was a probable Brythonic monarch of the early to mid-10th century. He is recorded just once in the entry for 926 in manuscript D of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as "Huwal king of the West Welsh" ("Huwal West Wala cyning"). Apart from a duplicate in Latin of this entry in John of Worcester's early 12th-century work Chronicon ex chronicis, there are no other known references to a king of this name in that region at the time, and as such his identity is a matter of debate.
Huwal's only mention is as one of several kings who signed a treaty at Eamont Bridge accepting King Athelstan of Wessex as their overlord. The description of him as king of the West Welsh implies that he was ruler of the Cornish or southwestern Britons in the kingdom of Dumnonia. Philip Payton of the Institute of Cornish Studies takes this at face value and states that he is "generally recognised as the last in a line of independent (or semi-independent) Cornish (Dumnonian) kings".[1] As such the final submission of Cornwall to Wessex may be attributed to him. Other scholars, however, have suggested that the Chronicle reference intends the kingdom of Deheubarth in what is now South West Wales, which was ruled at the time by Hywel Dda.[2][3] Hywel Dda is recorded elsewhere as an ally of Athelstan.
References
- ^ Payton, Philip (2004). Cornwall: A History (2nd ed.). Fowey: Cornwall Editions Ltd. p. 57. ISBN 1-904880-00-2.
- ^ Ann Williams et al. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain. London: Seaby
- ^ Wendy Davies. (1982). Wales in the early Middle Ages. Leicester: Leicester University Press ISBN 0-7185-1163-8
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